It rides fine from idle to 140 mph, but when a cross wind gets going, the bike loves to stall and die, and becomes a pain to start back up

 

Maybe if I just throw a match in the gas tank? :-)

 

no clue, a cross wind shouldn't make a difference like that unless it's pushing a wire or something loose.

 

I was thinking some kind of turbulence in the air box or carbs. I have never heard of this before though. I found one guy on here who had the same problem with an f3 and I pm'ed him, but he posted last year.

 

Sounds like you have a plug connection loose. A crosswind...? Wow, that's the oddest thing I have heard of.

Stay tuned someone will help you out.

 

The bike dying in a crosswind only happens at 50 mph, 70 mph, 100+ mph. Must be counteracting the ram air effect by loading it up with air, or sucking all the air out leaving **** tons of fuel to bog it out.

 

I found this on a yamaha site

"Crosswinds can create a venturi effect across the intake opening. This will reduce the airbox pressure. (It's like blowing across the top of a beer bottle.) This is why modern ram air intakes have more than one opening, to compensate for the crosswinds. One of the original ram air bikes had a single opening and crosswinds created a dip in power that could be felt by the rider."

My guess is that much less air is entering the engine as the gust occurs, Lots of fuel+ no air = bogging/ stalling

 

nice find, interesting info.

 

Did this help you out? I've heard of people drilling holes in the air boxes for things like this and just more air flow.... My bike was a victim of this alteration.

 

I have done nothing to the bike yet, as it snapped a clutch cable when I was at Ray and I-10. Good to see another local on here. Im doing the clutch cable and ape CCT when I get off school tonight.